CHA To Clear Out Most Cabrini-Green Row Houses

CHICAGO - SEPTEMBER 09: Demonstrators, Cabrini Green residents and supporters follow Deidre Brewster (L) of the Coalition to Protect Public Housing as she leads them through parts of Chicago Housing Authority's Cabrini Green public housing after a press conference September 9, 2005 in Chicago, Illinois. The Coalition to Protect Public Housing (CPPH) is demanding that the Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) provide vacant units in Chicago's public housing, Cabrini Green, to families made homeless by Hurricane Katrina. The group states that if the CHA does not help, the Cabrini residents will themselves rehab the vacant units, making them available for evacuees. The group states that HUD has available money for the CHA to make the vacant public housing units available. (Photo by Tim Boyle/Getty Images)

The CHA says 146 units in the row houses were rehabbed in 2009, leaving 438 units that were not.

Of those 438, only 33 are occupied, and have been deemed “dangerous and no longer suitable for residents.” Thus, the families that live in the units have been given 180-day relocation notices.

A panel of residents, community members and representatives from the CHA will meet to discuss what should happen to the site.

The Frances Cabrini row houses are located between Oak Street on the north and Chicago Avenue on the south, and between Hudson Avenue on the east and Larrabee Street on the west.

The Cabrini-Green development also comprised dozens of high- and mid-rise buildings, and used to stretch from Evergreen Avenue on the north to Chicago Avenue on the south, and from the CTA Brown-Purple Line tracks on the east to Halsted Street on the west.